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WASHINGTON — There may only be one group of lawmakers that butts heads with the Washington establishment more than Texas Sen. Ted Cruz: His biggest supporters — the House Freedom Caucus. They’re the conservative group responsible for ousting House Speaker John Boehner and the ones who agitate for Republicans to hold firm on budgets even as it throws the government into a shutdown. They relish their reputation as king slayers even as they downplay their status as the House’s new […]

LUZERNE COUNTY, Penn. — A Pennsylvania nurse is charged with being drunk while assisting on an emergency surgery at the VA Medical Center near Wilkes-Barre, according to WNEP. Richard Pieri admitted to investigators he was drinking at a casino when he was called into work shortly before midnight on Feb. 4. Police said surveillance video shows Pieri stumbling in the parking lot before he walked inside the hospital and helped with an emergency appendectomy. According to court papers, Pieri wasn’t acting himself that night, had trouble logging […]